The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.